During the Korean War years of 1950 to 1953, men from the Keysville community served in uniform, including Luther R. Hawkins, Wade M. Pillow, Richard J. Harris, Freddie J. Church, Arthur R. Tharpe, Leland Claybrook, Leroy L. Shook, William G. Cook, Jr., Wilbert L. Spence, John J. Clements, Leonard L. Morton, Ben O. Forester, James M. Eggleston, Ernest W. Chatham, Richard Trinneer, Roy M. Church, William G. Hawkins, Robert E. Hawkins, Richard F. Lindsay, Willie V. Scott, Harvey M. Newcomb, Alphonso Whitehead, Roy M. Ayers, Charles H. Bowman, Kermit T. Newcomb, Otis H. Lovelace, R. W. Wilmouth, William T. Lipscomb, Charles E. Faris, Roy O. Watson, Lewis H. Nelson, Thomas L. Hayes, William C. Wallace, Charles H. Tharpe, Freddie L. Troxler, John Laura, Alvin B. Waitt, Howard E. Townsend, William A. Foster, Bennie E. Hamlett, J. E. Newcomb, Louis W. Tatum, Garland L. Blanton, Herman S. Scruggs, Linwood N. Hicks, Grover E. Grant, John F. Tucker, Lewis M. Locke, Clarence J. Ward, Garrett H. Hunt, Henry R. Fitz, and Gray M. Norman, who was a prisoner of war. Those killed in action were Luther R. Hawkins, Wade M. Pillow, Richard J. Harris, R. W. Wilmouth, and William T. Lipscomb. Others from the community who served in uniform during 1950 to 1953 included Harold F. Locke, Reginald G. Poore, William N. Moore, John M. Barksdale, James J. Thompson, Marvin G. Wallace, William A. Lewis, Jr., V Adm Kent J. Carroll, Wilfred O. Pillow, King Waddill, Julian Seay, Don Bratton, Linard S. Bayne, Wesley Blue, Sr., George D. Bowman, William S. Brister, Sr., Ryland Y. Bailey, Hatfield M. Franklin, Henry F. Wilmouth, Jr., Rodney M. Bowie, Garland O. Clark, Donald F. Kemner, Marcellus E. Waddill, Charlie A. Osborne, Lt. G. Samuel V. Wilson, Lt. Col. Otey B. Carroll, Ernest M. Nichols, Lt. Richardson, Mack G. Robinette, Charles A. Simon, Clarence C. Spraggins, John W. Grile, G. Tennyson Passmore, Thomas S. Price, Clarence T. Newcomb, Raleigh E. Osborne, James O. Beard, Randolph L. Duffer, Joseph H. Vaden, Wilford O. Pillow, Robert E. Hall, Russell P. Baker, Jr., Douglas Myers, Jr., Robert H. Langford, Raymond C. Johnson, Nason A. Arrington, Walter H. Pettus Jr., William J. Fifield, T. Wayne Towery, Clarence C. Scruggs, Dayton L. Dunnavant, Lewis E. Scruggs, John W. Tharpe, William C. Hardy Jr., Carl F. Graff, William J. Martin, James H. Roberts, Charlie B. Tuck, Dewey P. Fallen, Samuel P. Hamlett, Garland E. Hamlett, Garland H. Hamlett, George H. Vaughan, Norman L. Ferrell, Claude J. Bigger, Cecil G. Watts, Franklin D. Watts, and Milton J. Elder.